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Birth Name: Keri Lynn Hilson
Place of Birth: Decatur, Georgia, United States
Date of Birth: December 5, 1982
What Race or Ethnicity?: African American
The beautiful American singer is of African American background.
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Why does evey light skin black person with fine features have to be black.; if you look at africans many of them have different features. As a matter of fact it was a war or some sort between two tribles the tutu and the banti something like that .To tell each other apart the tutu had finer features like Keri . So why is she even on here its kinda a insult like blacks cant have these features . Thats like me saying whites can not have have full lips tan skin or be pretty without being mixed with something. I mean come on now .
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ha looking at the comments is funny..seriously lets be honest, she’s not of just african american heritage…I would bet my life on the fact that she has quite a bit of European ancestry
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NO MAN SHE IS JUST BLACK
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SAY EUROPEAN
WHY NOT ARAB -OR NATIVE AMERICAN
NOT ALL OF THEM ARE MIXED WITH WHITE
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She deff looks like she has alot of European blood in her, Gives her a more exotic look!
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i’m tired of whites thinking they “own” certain features!
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All life started in Africa there is no denying the fact do your research and get your foot out of your mouth. Peoples skin tones and hair types developed according to the climates they migrated to and have evolved from there own. Only a racist idiot would think other wise just when you think there is hope for the world uneducated racist idiots start talking.
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There is no denying the fact that Keri has European ancestry.
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Wow, she’s so beautiful. <3
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When Keri Hilson first came out as an artist she was a lot darker. Her light complexion is not natural… she has lightened herself and had plastic surgery to look the way she does now.
This is a photo of her before she has lightened and had plastic surgery done. http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p48/MorbidRains/?action=view¤t=KeriHilson-PRN-007496.jpg
And this is her after her lightening herself and having plastic surgery done. http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p48/MorbidRains/?action=view¤t=MV5BMTUyODYwMjk2MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTY4NjMzNA_V1_SX640_SY962_.jpg
From the before photo you should be able to tell that she is black with little to no mixture at all. She and no one can erase the ethnicity by lightening themselves and by getting plastic surgery!
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I dont think she got lighter. but her nose looks alittle smaller. but anyway it doesnt matter.I think Keri is gorgeous & very talented! :)
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He is Karie Hilson before she lightened herself.
She is with her parents and her parents or just black!
http://concreteloop.com/2007/12/parties-keri-hilsons-flashback-birthday/keri-hilson-parents
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I mean here and not he
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Her is a before and after photo
Before http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p48/MorbidRains/?action=view¤t=keri-hilson-2009-12-3-0-41-55.jpg
After
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p48/MorbidRains/?action=view¤t=MV5BMTUyODYwMjk2MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTY4NjMzNA_V1_SX640_SY962_.jpg
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She looks mixed to me.
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Keri is mixed. I spotted her and her mom sitting down at an awards ceremony. She gave a shout out to her mom (caucasion), who looks just like her.
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BUT WHY DO BOTH OF HER PARENTS LOOKS JUST BLACK
EXPLAIN
SHE IS JUST BLACK
AND CONSIDERED BLACK
YOU CAN
ASK AND ASK
YOURSELF
WHY DOES SHE LOOK LIKE THAT
THATS THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN RACE
FROM TODAY
DEAL WITH IT
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theres no such thing as a light skin african….come one now. clearly if they are light skin then they have some type of european background, lets be real now
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for people who make these comments you do know in area of africa that weren’t inhabited by europeans there are blacks with fair skin and bright eyes, in fact so much so they were prior to whites coming to africa for those who are saying that if they’re black with light features it means they have white blood you really DONT know about genetics nor history, africans were a multitude of colors because africa is a continent, many nations and languages, actually the most diverse nation in the world….smh these comments had to be made by an person who lacked knowledge,
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Yes, Malcolm…I been saying this all through out this site…seriously…and also if all human life started in Africa, that means Africans produced White people. If Africans can produce white why can’t they produce light?…It’s so elementary when you really think about it…
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human life DID NOT START IN AFRICA>>> I hate to think my IRISH ancestors descended from anyone who thinks that ANYONE as light as Keri DOES not have WHITE in her family tree some where!!!
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LOL at those 2 first idiots commenting on them producing white ppl. u couldnt even produce an average IQ man let alone other ppl. and as for homo sapiens originating in africa, who told u the original ppl were black in skin color lol. they were light brown and tanned according to scientists. so black is not a natural color of the skin either. u think ppl for 200k years havent changed and were just black from the start lol. plus just because the are isnt inhabitated by caucasians doesnt mean they dont have caucasian blood in them. and arabs spread more than just islam to africa so a lot of blacks have their dna too. bottom line is if u think ure light skinned and ure 100% black then u have to be either rly stupid or just and average american. which is pretty mych the same. only blacks in USA are ignorant about this stuff.
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ok guys firstly who knows maybe she is mixed or maybe not… but the assumption that light skinned people have to be mixed is nonsense.. im from Zimbabwe born and raised im am a full black African moved to Canada a year ago and im fare in complexion and have straight hair but i know my family tree i have no european blood.. check my twitter pic @haymoney91
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UGH. There have been studies done on African-Americans which proved them to have Caucasian ancestry! “why can’t they produce light?” Obviously you don’t understand the evolution of it…. C’mon, how rare do you think it is for a very dark-skinned Black American couple to give birth to a light-skinned child without any Caucasian admixture? Are you suggesting that these miracles happen everyday within the Black population? .. i don’t think so..
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Hi Malcolm. While all people did originate from Africa the genetic mutations for red/blond hair, white skin and blue/green eyes did not occur in Africa. These mutations happened thousands of years after people left Africa and went to colder, less sunny climates. Scientists have tracked the blue eye mutation to 6,000 – 10,000 years ago in the Black Sea area. If people in Africa display these characteristics they came from outside of Africa. There is lots of information on genetics that can be easily researched.
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Someone who is talking sense why can`t people just research this themselves rather that stupid comments like Africa produced everyone so we can look like anything.Yes we started in Africa when people moved to EUROPE the needed to change for there surroundings there hair colour changed everything..The mutation for blue eyes happened in Europe years after leaving Africa we all had brown eyes but a mutation happened that stopped people from having brown eyes.God scientists spend many years finding out all this history and then people make these silly comments like “Africans can produce white people why can`t they produce light” or African people can have light eyes aswell.Nobody is denying that life started in Africa but people changed after generations of leaving Africa and living in colder climates and they evolved to fit these surroundings that`s life get over it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color
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